New York is a city. I went there again to get down with some painting, friends, family, and a court date (more on that later).

The Electric Windows gathering went really well, with an impressive mélange of artists and styles. The work will be up for a year on this old electric blanket factory in the beautifully sleepy upstate town of Beacon, NY. Open Space Gallery work will be up til June 7th. Here's the finished wall at twilight.

Upso's was the first piece to go up. The building is directly across the street from Open Space.

Happy to see Tina again.

Just getting started on the first night in a huge garage at Jeff and Nicole's (from Beacon art supply) house.

Headed out to the AdHoc Gallery in Williamsburg/Bushwick to check out this "Thread of Chance" show and talk about future stuff. Josh MacPhee, Billy Mode, Chris Stain and The Polaroid Kidd's installation was damn impressive.

The NYC Tattoo Convention was happening, so there were several accompanying shows and gatherings. This spot has left my memory, but amazing work and cool peeps, just not this guy.

Again, can't remember her name, but amazing artwork and a damn good tattoo artist from what I hear. We got some vegan junk food with her and some friends of Jesse's around the corner.

This is at Dan, Kalen and Easton's house after Electric Windows. If you live in NY, you've seen Thundercut's "Walkers". They created a life size one that lit up with the help of the GRL for the Spring St project.

Easton woke us up early so I took a stroll around their 12 acre upstate property.

Dan & Kalene quit their design/advertising jobs to sell shortcakes on Coney Island for a summer. Here's one of their handmade signs. Brilliant.

Back to the city.

This is one of those bars that cost $1000 to rent a booth for a night and they don't let anyone in. Whoohoo, $15 beer night! Luckily we knew the bartender. Ended up drinking the rest of the night for essentially for free at another spot with Ripo, his brother, and most of this crew here. Can't really be sharing those photos though.

Back at Jesse's. He has this little sticker piece Phil Frost did for him years ago when he was singing for the band Yuppicide.